, in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation- Central Region, the 9th annual Green Lakes Endurace Races.

As the Race Director, Thank You for your patience in our delayed opening this year. I was strongly considering career relocation options over the past 6 months and wasn't sure I would have the opportunity or privilege to RD 2015 GLER and held off on opening registration until those issues were resolved.

We anticipate that our GLER Team will hold another highly competitive and enjoyable set of trail ultra-marathons again late this August.

GLER 2007

Race day had a high of 73ºF and an occasional shower.

100 km Highlights

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Randy Miller ran a quick initial 50 km and held on to win by 25 minutes. Two veterans, Keith Straw and Walter Bird, were second and third overall rounding out the top three coming in under 11 hours. The stage is now set for a runner to challenge the 10 hour barrier on this course.

Two footnotes in the 100 km were the performances of Gary Ferguson and Hanna Ben-Shoan. Ferguson’s eight splits were between 1:30 and 1:36. It was remarkable pacing. Ben-Shoan impressed all with her strength through 87.5 km. However, she did not appear to have time for the 14 hour cut-off and chose to stop. Ben-Shoan’s courage and sportsmanship has a place in GLER history.

50 km Highlights

Javier Martinez and Ryan O’Dell came through the first lap in 1:02. Martinez then pushed the pace opening up a gap. Martinez held on to win by about 5 minutes as O’Dell had no more legs than Martinez for the final 12.5 km.

Katherine Stettler had all the legs in the world however, running the fastest forth lap of all the runners! Stettler ran negative splits to overtake Jill Perry on that now famous last lap. Perry, a local 26.2 specialist, adapted well to the 50 km trail race finishing second.